Matthew 21:31
31Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, athe tax collectors and bthe prostitutes go into cthe kingdom of God before you.Luke 5:30
30And the Pharisees and dtheir scribes grumbled at his disciples, saying, e“Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”Luke 5:32
32 fI have not come to call the righteous gbut sinners hto repentance.”Luke 7:34
34The Son of Man has come ieating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, ja friend of tax collectors and sinners!’Luke 7:39
39Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If kthis man were la prophet, he mwould have known who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, for she is a sinner.”Luke 18:13
13But the tax collector, nstanding far off, owould not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but pbeat his breast, saying, ‘God, qbe merciful to me, a sinner!’Luke 19:7
7And when they saw it, they all rgrumbled, “He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.”John 9:24
24So for the second time they called the man who had been blind and said to him, s“Give glory to God. We know that tthis man is a sinner.”John 9:31
31We know that uGod does not listen to sinners, but vif anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.Romans 5:8
8but wGod shows his love for us in that xwhile we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
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